segôgw

Abenaki

FWOTD – 11 June 2018

Etymology

Literally "he who urinates", in reference to the animals' spraying of stinky musk, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”) (Abenaki seg-).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /səɡɔ̃ɡʷ/

Noun

segôgw (animate, plural segôgwak)

skunk (small mammal with black and white coat and musk glands)

Descendants

→ English: skunk (see there for further descendants)

References

Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 36